Cold Feet star Hermione Norris: I buy Asda budget food now

Former Cold Feet star Hermione Norris has told how she has fallen on hard times — abandoning her beloved Waitrose for Asda’s budget range.

Despite reportedly earning a salary of £75,000 per episode while starring as mother Karen Marsden in the ITV show between 1997 and 2003, the actress claims she now has to watch the pennies.

Norris, 47, right, who has since starred in dramas such as Wire In The Blood and Kingdom, said: “It’s quite a different industry now and the money has gone down hugely. So there’s still quite a bit of Asda Smart Price in my life.

“I think, perhaps, if you work in America, the fees are still very good. But my life is here and I love British drama. And, you know, there is a part of me that would rather eat beans than find myself working in something that I didn’t believe in.”

Her comments, in an interview with Reader’s Digest, on sale next week, contrast to her comments two years ago, when the mother-of-two spoke of going to Waitrose, saying she could “happily spend an hour there and rack up a bill of £300”.